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DETAIL OF CONVEYOR SYSTEM AT SOUTHWEST CORNER OF MAIN ROOM; AFTER CARCASSES WERE SPLIT, THEY TURNED THE CORNER HERE BEFORE ENTERING THE REFIGERATED CORRIDOR THAT LED TO THE COOLERS IN BUILDING 162 - Rath Packing Company, Beef Killing Building, Sycamore Street between Elm and Eighteenth Streets, Waterloo, Black Hawk County, IA
Depicted place Iowa; Black Hawk County; Waterloo
Date Documentation compiled after 1968
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
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HAER IOWA,7-WATLO,4U-15
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  • Significance: Rath's Beef Killing Building was constructed between 1941 and 1943 to provide facilities for the slaughter and dressing of cattle, veal calves and sheep. A significant feature of the building's fourth floor killing room was its 150-foot-long, conveyor-topped skinning table. Workers rode on the conveyor alongside the freshly killed cattle, removing hides by hand while the table automatically positioned the carcasses for each operation. This device greatly improved the efficiency of what had been back-breaking, unsanitary, and time-consuming work, and thus represented an important development in the packing industry's ongoing struggle to apply production line principles to the processing of organic materials. The company could process 140 cattle per hour in this building.
  • Survey number: HAER IA-41-U
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ia0524.photos.319569p
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Object location42° 29′ 34.01″ N, 92° 20′ 34.01″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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